Welcome back to the fourth and final part of WCH crime, the Columbia Eagle Mutiny.

Where we left off last week, Alan Clyde had taken over the eagle and sailed to Cambodia.

They were hoping the Cambodian government would give them asylum and hold onto the ship to prevent his cargo,

napalm, from entering

the Vietnam War. Instead, a coup took place just after they arrived, and the two mutineers

were taken prisoner. Eventually, they escaped the deteriorating conditions of their imprisonment,

each going their separate ways.

It's the case of the successful two-man mutiny aboard the American munitions ship, Columbia Eagle. Two crewmen were armed when they took control of the cargo ship.

The hijackers, meanwhile, went on.

While Clyde went off into the Cambodian countryside to join Khmer Communist guerrillas,

Al was in a poor state of health and surrendered himself at the U.S. embassy.

He then had to face charges for what he'd

done. The shipping company and the captain were demanding the death penalty and that I'd be tried

for treason. The U.S. government could not try me for treason. They claimed, but they could try me

for the legal things that I had done that were against the law, which was mutiny on the high seas, assault

with a dangerous weapon, armed kidnapping, things of that nature.

The Naval Intelligence Service officers who investigated the mutiny initially believed that

more of the crew must have been involved, but Al was insistent that he and Clyde acted alone,

and in the end only Al faced charges. In total, Al was insistent that he and Clyde acted alone, and in the end,

only Al faced charges. In total, Al was charged with 23 separate counts. But after some clever

maneuvering from Al's lawyers, prosecutors offered a plea deal. They could get a better deal, they thought,

if I pled guilty, and they negotiated an offer with the federal government. The government

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